I have no dread of supernatural things, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as is wrought by the living in one single day.[Or, j’aime les fantômes ; je n’ai jamais entendu dire que les morts eussent fait en six mille ans autant de mal que les vivants en font en un jour.]

Source:(ed. P. F. Collier & Son, 1910), Volume I, Chapter XLV. The Rain of Blood, Page 527
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